The voice of unreason...

[mousme]

I'd like to point out that, even though one crazy man is calling for the Pope's death, there are thousands upon thousands of quite sane imams who have not done so.

While the nutcase is doing nothing to help the image that Westerners have of Islam, it is unfortunate to think that all of the others who aren't baying for blood count for nothing in all this.

I'm going to take a page from kino_kid. I am tired of remembering the mass murderers and the psychopaths and the serial killers. Instead, I will remember these people, who are far more important:

Anne St-Arneault
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klueznick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie Turcotte

Phoivos Ziogas
Matthew Douglass
Michael Hogben
Jaan Saber

Anastasia DeSousa

I'm going to try to track down the article my father wrote for Le Devoir after the Polytechnique massacre. It was a brilliant text, if memory serves.

:::ETA:::

It was too long ago, so I haven't been able to find the complete text online. But here's an excerpt from "Les hommes sont tous coupables":

En ce sens nous sommes tous coupables, nous les hommes s'entend dans la mesure où nous tolérons l'existence et l'approfondissement au coeur de nos sociétés de cette ambivalence vis-à-vis des femmes qui sont pavoisées, adulées, vénérées au niveau des images, des fantasmes et des sentiments creux, mais qui sont également frappées, avilies et assassinées dans nos violentes intimités.

I have to run, but I'll translate if needs be when I get home.

Comments

[joane.livejournal.com]

While the nutcase is doing nothing to help the image that Westerners have of Islam, it is unfortunate to think that all of the others who aren't baying for blood count for nothing in all this.

[shrugs] I felt no need, when posting about the unintentional and morbidly amusing irony spouted by an obvious nutcase, to insert a disclaimer that would be totally unnecessary for any of the people who read my journal. I wouldn't patronize my readers by adding a note about how "not all pageant parents sexually abuse and murder their children" if posting about JonBenet Ramsey, for instance, so why do it on this one? The millions of rational, educated Muslims in the world speak for themselves.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Nor was this an attack on you, sweet pea. I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was more irked at the media (in this particular case) who felt compelled to report on this one nutbar as though he was representative of his entire religion.

And sometimes the millions of rational, educated Muslims in the world aren't heard, because they're drowned out by the shrilling of extremists. Same as with every other group out there.